Chicken Bhapa, Fish Curry, Pumpkin Kofta… dishes from the new dine den on Park Street? No, all this and more was cooking at Sector V’s IndiSmart Hotel on April 9 as 30 ‘cheftestants’ from 11 states competed for the Top 10 spots in the east zonal semi-finals of Young Chef India Schools 2017, presented by IIHM in association with t2. All students of Class XI and XII, the young chefs showed off their culinary skills to city chefs to make it through to the next round, which will see 10 finalists each from four zones cross knives on IIHM’s Delhi campus later this month. t2 dishes out step by step…

Text: Deborima Ganguly
Pictures: Arnab Mondal